Michael is a actor and director known mostly for theater roles. He has spent most of the last decade working for Disney Theatricals and touring all over the globe. On screen credits include NBC's ...Show More
Michael is a actor and director known mostly for theater roles. He has spent most of the last decade working for Disney Theatricals and touring all over the globe. On screen credits include NBC's Manifest, Amazon's Alpha House, as well as several incarnations of Law and Order. On Broadway - the new musical Amazing Grace and the Off-Broadway musical Goldstein. Other performance credits include the first and second national tours of Mary Poppins as Mr Banks; the comic hornbill, Zazu, in The Lion King; and originating the role of Marlin in the world premiere of Disney's Finding Nemo - The Musical written by the Oscar winning team behind Frozen.Other stage credits include Off-Broadway and concerts at 54 Below as well as the McCarter Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, Bucks County Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Skylight Music Theater, and Utah Shakespeare.In 2018 Michael became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Rowan University. He holds an MFA from the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California at Irvine where he trained in the Knight-Thompson Speechwork. He is also a regular theatre director and speech professor for the Princeton Theological Seminary.Michael was a founding member of the New York based multimedia performance ensemble Coyote Rep and is founder and owner of The Dialect Lab of Princeton, a professional speech and dialect company.Active member of Actor's Equity Association (AEA), The Screen Actor's Guild (SAG-AFTRA), and the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA). 01/15/2019 Hide
